Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1887-04-13
JlIlRD EDITION.


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- - UNCONSTITUTIONAL sketch.
- town Of Newark has suffered q
Uons losa In the death Of William Dean. |
D01ch ooOurred 1t his late resid ence
D1og that town last evening at ten min.
- before 3 o'clock. Mr.. Dean had
.mu-ou6orIng since last fail; even v hen
- vns upon the platform advocating
- election Of the Temperance Reform
ll14et he had not his usual good health
= was suffering con siderably when the
1AmAtrous FIRE occurred that consumed
- mills last Chrisemss. but 1t was not
fought that his sickness would result
- death.
Hts exposure ct the fire no doubt led
= the attack Of pneumonia that follow
- and the great loss OF his mills no
4oabt 10 prey ed upon his mind Al TO
uzusavAte the disease. His decease,
oooueh expected for some time, still
U1nsod shosk in the community.
The funeral will take place at 2
efelock ON Saturday afternoon from the
- homo OF the deceased. A train
Alky, at IL Is O'Clock, noon, for Newark,
80 returning, leave Newark at e IL
William Dean was born In Blockley
GoWnship, then Philadelphia County,
Bat now 3 part OF the city, May 10 1920.
IA parents were Joseph and Deborah
=. Dean, born in England.
Wrs. Dean died before The subject OF
~ sketch WAS year old. bis rather
married again, and to an excelle Mt step.
Unoeher WAS he indebted to good moral
&nnlning, while from his father he i'm
0Ghed those principles which developed
- Into . successful business man.
His fnther being . successful w0oilen
-Doods manufacturer, took his son, at
- age Of IS, from the public school
UAich he WAS attending and placed him
- his mill, where he became proficient
n ell the details of manufacturing
Voollen goods then known, and since
eAou he has kept pace with the times.
H fall In love early with Miss Margaret
.Aspdan, and married her when he WAS
bat 20 gears Of age. The young wife
Was of . respectable family OF the
1alghborhood, and MIR. Deans accepted
- situation without father objec
@lons to what could not be helped
Young Deans relations in life now be-
1ng changed he could work no longer
~ his board and clothing, and asked
mn wages. His request was 8, anted
Aud he WAS allowed "a so q week, the
sam being increased 80 cents q week
aAch year until IT reached the proper
lions OF Is per week. The writer hal
heard Mr.. Dean say more than orct
aAat those were the hsppiest days OF hi
-1lSe.
The business Of the elder Dean havinl
Increased to tuch an extent that 1t be
CAme necessary for him to look fo
1w~o~ nd tn IN,
oround the splendid water power @
white Clay creek, running just back o
che town OF Newark, struck his eye
md In 1845 Joseph Dean removed h
Shat place and startsd the large mill
GOV lying In ruins. In 1847 be took hi
con william into partnership with hin
and the firm assumed the name o
Joseph Dean s. Scr. 10 chow hos
economical the firm was IL IL worthy o
note to state that each of the partner
agreed to take but IS q week GU: of tn,
Susinees upon which TO live, though thI
sons family wac now seven in rumbeT
Not . deiNxof debt had besn Incurred
NE fr1 eafN aard the profts OF tn
Susinns In than Is ear were Sl2l 10 each
WilDsm giving that amount to =.
TSfave vile, who ped him % bear u
until better tinev In tea years tt
Ann was independent. Int the tiuaucis
-~orssh of 1857 came aud the earnings {
Che nrm were swept away. This WAS
severe blow to the father, who was de
olining In years, and from which b
never fully recovered. The mil Al
nacbinery being sill left out of IN
wreck ths son. by permission OF II
fAtber, commenced business again Wit
success.
Joseph Dean died in 1861, when ais so
William entered into partueIshig wit
John Pilliug, and in 1882 stock con
pany was formed under the name
The Dean Woollen Company, with
capital of $3.50, 600, with August
Thomas of Philadelphia as presiGen
-Ond William Dean superintendent. II
capacity was nearly trebled ct tn
Slme. John Piiling remained as stoc
holder. The two Sons Of William Des
Joseph and William Kershaw Dea
.A1led positions in the mill beside beil
stockholders. The establishment W
thus being conducted up TO the NOR
ing Of Christmas day Last, when it W
sotAlly destroyed by hte, which pl
@umsbly resulted from spon,aueo
combustion, throwing 266 hands out
employment aud causing q loss
00orIy pIOV,OVV'
Mr.. Deaa was a sto3khoider OF t
p, w. & b. Railroad, and waa for sor
tiBe Director in the same.
He paid great attention TO the cul
walton OF small :rnits, and also sor
attention TO bloodad cattle. Being
friend to the farmer he became
enthusiastic granger, organized t
order of Patrons Of Hushandry In De-
ware, WAS Master Of Newark Gran
70. five years, aud chairman OF I
8eate Executive Committee Of tae ord
His strong sympathies Ia favor OF I'd
cation made him u trustee OF De!aWs
College for some y a;s.
To 1881 he visited EnRlapd and ma
of the man UfacturiDg centres OF u
country. He wrote highly desc.;p;i
LISTERS of his travels, and in d!scussi
tho subject of manufacturing indastr
took the free trade side OF the Punie
1Gr. Dean was elected to the Laoia
Eure In 1868 and when that body Z
IA January 1859 be was made charm
Of the Ways and Means Committee.
was Mt this session, when considett
ahe taxation of railroad com panies, d
the Legislature accepted $40, 600 III
ct oil other taxes. Though a Dem OCT
he vas liberal, fair anc st all times boz
and independent. IN 1873 MT. DE-
had incurred the disp.essure Of la
number of the mem Ders OF his par
but after heated contest in his o
hundred be was nominated for the /.
lslature again. Hundreds CT Der
crats voted againet h:m, but they "
more than offset By the Republics
who voted for him,
In 1879, he was chairman Ct
Dem cratic State Executive Commit
bat resigned the pcsition on the no.
aasion OF Horace Greeley 10 ths p,
deucy, and Joined the straishtout DeL
cratic movement, He WAS deleg
10 the convention at Lewisville WI